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DecaNet (World List of Decapoda)

WoRMS taxon details

Achelous binoculus (Holthuis, 1969)

557880  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:557880)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Eucarida (Superorder)
  9. Decapoda (Order)
  10. Pleocyemata (Suborder)
  11. Brachyura (Infraorder)
  12. Eubrachyura (Section)
  13. Heterotremata (Subsection)
  14. Portunoidea (Superfamily)
  15. Portunidae (Family)
  16. Achelouinae (Subfamily)
  17. Achelous (Genus)
  18. Achelous binoculus (Species)
accepted
Species
Portunus binoculus Holthuis, 1969 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Portunus binoculus Holthuis, 1969) Holthuis, L.B. (1969). <i>Portunus binoculus</i>, n. sp., a new deep-water swimming crab from the Caribbean Region (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 19(2): 409-427. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Depth range Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m)  
Depth range Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) [details]
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Achelous binoculus (Holthuis, 1969). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=557880 on 2025-04-04
Date
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2011-01-05 08:26:45Z
created
Davie, Peter
2021-01-06 12:10:07Z
changed
Ahyong, Shane
2022-04-12 08:25:46Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy

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Nomenclature

original description (of Portunus binoculus Holthuis, 1969) Holthuis, L.B. (1969). <i>Portunus binoculus</i>, n. sp., a new deep-water swimming crab from the Caribbean Region (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 19(2): 409-427. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

new combination reference Mantelatto, F.L.; Robles, R.; Schubart, C.D.; Felder, D.L. (2009). Molecular phylogeny of the genus <em>Cronius</em> Stimpson, 1860, with reassignment of <em>C. tumidulus</em> and several American species of <em>Portunus</em> to the genus <em>Achelous</em> De Haan, 1833 (Brachyura: Portunidae). <em>In: Crustacean Issues 18: Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics, Martin, J.W., Crandall, K.A. & Felder, D.L. (eds).</em> CRC Press, England, pp. 567–579., available online at https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420092592-c29 [details] 

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Depth range Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) [details]

Habitat Soft bottom (mud or sand) [details]
    Definitions

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LanguageName 
English redspot swimming crab [from synonym]  [details]
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) 
To CRUSTA 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Achelous binoculus) 
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) 
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Portunus binoculus Holthuis, 1969)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (27 records) (from synonym Portunus binoculus Holthuis, 1969)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 113560) (from synonym Portunus binoculus Holthuis, 1969)